Re: 250 gig hard drives

2008-01-04 Thread Daniele Gratteri
DataZap ha scritto: Thanks for the info. I would have to agree that it should work properly with Amiga OS 3.9. It would be helpful to have the make and model of your drive and the geometry that was set in HDtoolbox. Hopefully, that will be enough information for me to still use 3.1 and yet be abl

Re: 250 gig hard drives

2007-12-31 Thread DataZap
drive. Thanks, Al On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, Daniele Gratteri wrote: > Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 18:17:11 +0100 > From: Daniele Gratteri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-68k@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: 250 gig hard drives > Resent-Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:17:42 + (UTC) >

Re: 250 gig hard drives

2007-12-29 Thread Daniele Gratteri
DataZap ha scritto: What I think is the problem is that any ide drive over 8 gigs lies to the firmware. So, I don't think that it could be correct. Of course, I could be wrong. Well, I received the SCSI to IDE converters and made some tests. The geometry of a 120 GB disk is perfectly recogniz

Re: 250 gig hard drives

2007-12-21 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 08:04:15PM -0700, DataZap wrote: > Hi, > > I didn't realize that I could partition the drive with amiga-fdisk. It > seems to me that the Debian that I have on my system is from 1999 or 2000 > (just the files to install it), so maybe you had to use HDtoolbox back > then. Cou

Re: 250 gig hard drives

2007-12-20 Thread DataZap
eri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-68k@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: 250 gig hard drives > Resent-Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:06:27 + (UTC) > Resent-From: debian-68k@lists.debian.org > > DataZap ha scritto: > > Hi, > > > > I was wondering if anyone on t

Re: 250 gig hard drives

2007-12-20 Thread DataZap
9:19:38 +0100 > From: Christian T. Steigies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: DataZap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian-68k@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: 250 gig hard drives > > On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 10:38:06PM -0700, DataZap wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I was wonder

Re: 250 gig hard drives

2007-12-20 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 10:38:06PM -0700, DataZap wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if anyone on this list has put a 250 gig hard drive in an > Amiga with an "Acard" scsi-to-ide bridge. I know that it can be done, and > although I would need to put the boot partition in the first 2 gig of the > dri

Re: 250 gig hard drives

2007-12-20 Thread Daniele Gratteri
DataZap ha scritto: Hi, I was wondering if anyone on this list has put a 250 gig hard drive in an Amiga with an "Acard" scsi-to-ide bridge. I know that it can be done, and although I would need to put the boot partition in the first 2 gig of the drive, Linux doesn't have any such limit. The part

250 gig hard drives

2007-12-19 Thread DataZap
Hi, I was wondering if anyone on this list has put a 250 gig hard drive in an Amiga with an "Acard" scsi-to-ide bridge. I know that it can be done, and although I would need to put the boot partition in the first 2 gig of the drive, Linux doesn't have any such limit. The partitions need to be setu